The collections relate chiefly to Asian American assimilation, communities, demography, education, exclusion laws, health, history, identity, immigration, labor, performing arts, and World War II internment. These collections include correspondence, speeches, literary manuscripts, theater scripts, diaries, oral history interviews, transcripts, research papers, photographs, newspaper clippings, conference papers, symposium papers, community newsletters, organizational records, unpublished master theses, and yearbooks.

Manuscripts, speeches, symposium papers, theater scripts, correspondence, organizational papers, unpublished master theses, pamphlets, photographs, community newsletters, yearbooks, directories, reports, theater playbills, and other documents pertaining to Asian American and Pacific Islander communities that were collected by the AAPI Librarian from 2007-2013.
Material relates chiefly to Asian American assimilation, education, exclusion laws, history, identity, immigration, performing arts, theater, social conditions, social life and customs, heritage schools, and student activism. Also includes subjects such as Boat People from Vietnam, Asian American studies, Asian adoptees, Japanese internment during World War II, Chinatowns, and Chinese American churches.

Nonprofit, national organization based in Washington, D.C. and founded in 1976 by sixteen Asian American and Pacific Islander women to encourage the participation of Asian American and Pacific Islander women in all aspects of society, overcome discrimination, and achieve equal opportunity. Includes minutes, newsletters, reports, directories, organizational history, pamphlets, and other records of the Organization of Pan Asian American Women.

Personal narratives relating to the forcible evacuation and relocation of Japanese Americans during World War II. Narrators include internees, many of whom served in the United States military during World War II or subsequent conflicts. Also included are a small number of civilian employees of the War Relocation Authority and military personnel whose service included assignments at internments camps.